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Atom™ Processor
E6xx Series and
Intel® Platform
Controller Hub
EG20T
January 2011
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The Power Management IC for the Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx Series
and Intel® Platform Controller Hub EG20T
Executive Summary
Time to market, cost, board size constraints, reliability and design
capabilities are among the motivating factors in choosing Power
Management IC versus a discrete solution. However, a discrete solution
allows design optimization, offers higher power efficiency, flexibility and is
easy to debug. Often, it is not possible to determine which choice will be
better without understanding the details of design requirement.
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The Power Management IC for the Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx Series
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The Power Management IC for the Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx Series
and Intel® Platform Controller Hub EG20T
Contents
Background ...........................................................................................................5
Solution ................................................................................................................5
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The Power Management IC for the Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx Series
and Intel® Platform Controller Hub EG20T
Background
The Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx is a new embedded System on a Chip
(SoC), with the idea that it can serve as a high performance, ultra-low power
and low cost single chip processor for applications such as deeply embedded
IP media, networking, digital signage, and industrial control. It consists of a
single low power IA CPU core, memory controller, 3D graphics, video decode
and video encode engine, 2D display controller, SDVO and LVDS interfaces,
Intel® High Definition Audio Controller, GPIOs , SMBUS, SPI interface
connectivity to SPI flash, LPC, PCIe* controller, RTC, 8254 timer and
watchdog timer. The different sub-systems require different supply voltages
and draw different amount of currents. While in operation, the power
consumption of the device is the highest and power management should be
designed as economically as possible. While on standby, the power
consumption of the device should be reduced to the absolute minimum.
Transition from standby to operation mode must be achieved as smoothly as
possible, with no voltage or current spikes that could disrupt the operation of
the device.
This article describes the solutions created during the course of engagement
with Dialog Semiconductor* and ROHM Semiconductor* in designing the
Power Management IC.
Solution
Today, modern integration technologies have brought about improvements to
the power management IC. Dialog Semiconductor* and ROHM
Semiconductor* have provided fully integrated power management ICs for
the Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx, Intel® Platform Controller Hub EG20T,
DDR2 down devices (maximum of 8 loads of 1Gbit memory down device) and
SPI flash. Both vendors have integrated Intel® Mobile Voltage Positioning – 6
(Intel®MVP-6) controllers, DC to DC converters, LDO regulators, Power FET,
clock synthesizer and system management controller into one or two devices.
The power management IC is scalable to the various companion IOHs, such
as, the Intel® Platform Controller Hub EG20T, OKI Semiconductor* IOH,
Realtek* IOH and STMicro* IOH. The integrated clock building block is
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Control
Intel®
Signals Atom™
Voltage Processor
E6xx
Signals
DDR2
Clock
Signals
SPI Flash
Power
Management
IC Intel®
Platform
Controller Hub
EG20T
OR
Other IOH
from 3rd
Party
Vendors
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and Intel® Platform Controller Hub EG20T
POWER POWER
MANAGEMENT MANAGEMENT
CONTROL BLOCK BLOCK
CLOCKS PROGRAMMABLE
SYNTHESIZER REGISTERS
An LDO regulator is ideal for supplying the PLL and analog blocks of an
Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx where low noise, low quiescent current and
low drop out are essential.
Step down DC-DC regulator is usually used for supplying the I/O core supply
voltage due to its high power efficiency. However, the quiescent current of
DC-DC regulator can be 100 times higher than equivalent LDO regulator. The
FET switches can be either fully integrated or externally.
IMVP-6 is usually used to regulator power to the CPU and Graphics cores
inside the Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx. It supports the real-time dynamic
switching of the voltage and frequency between multiple performance modes,
also known as Enhanced Intel® SpeedStep Technology. This technology
allows the switching of the bus ratios, the variation of core operating voltage,
and the variation of core processor speeds without resetting the system. With
Enhanced Intel® SpeedStep Technology, there can be more than two modes
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of operation. That is, the processor requests IMVP-6 to provide more than
two voltage levels depending on the power saving mode.
The block interfaces with the Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx via the
SLPMODE, SLPRDY_B, RSTRDY_B, RSTWARN and PWRMODE [2:0] signals to
determine the power on, down, reset transition and via RSMRST_N,
SLP_S5_N, SLP_S3_N, PWROK and CPU_RST_N, RESET_N signals to
determine the system reset and S-states.
The common system power sequences such as system power on and down,
cold and warm reset, enter and exit Sleep S3 state, Wake-On-LAN and
catastrophic shut-down are supported by the Power Management IC.
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Figure 3: The Power Management IC Input & Output Control and Handshake
signals
RSTRDY_B
SLPRDY_B
RSTWARN
SLPMODE
RESET_N
RSMRST
SUSCLK
PWROK
GPE_B
System Power Management Controller Block (part of
Power Management IC)
CB_SYS_RESET_N
CB_PWRBTN_N
RST_PLA_N
RST_PLB_N
RST_PLC_N
SLP_PLB_N
SLP_PLC_N
PWRGD
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Source
Output Clocks
Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx
Host Clock - BCLK 100Mhz Differential Signal
Host Clock – HPLL REFCLK 100Mhz Differential Signal
SDVO - DOT CLK 96Mhz Differential Signal
Reference Clock - REF CLK 14.318Mhz Single Ended
SRC Clock - PCIE CLK 100Mhz Differential Signal
Intel® Platform Controller Hub EG20T
Others
Besides the power and clock, the Power Management IC vendors have
incorporated other features like:
• Thermal Management
• Analog to Digital Converter (ADC)
• General Purpose I/O
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At a minimum, the platform designer must evaluate the power and clock
specification of the design; this includes assessing requirements of input and
output voltage, current, power efficiency, supplies from the clock, noise
tolerance and possibly other consideration. Even the Power Management IC
solution is not exempted from careful planning.
Comparing the total cost between the two solutions, there is clearly a cost
benefit to the Power Management IC as fewer components are used; design
is simplified and allows less room for error. However, comparing the
component BOM cost, there is no significant difference for both designs.
Design Effort
Clearly, the design effort using a fully integrated Power Management IC is
less than discrete solutions. Sometimes, discrete design requires a more
expert level of design capability; the platform designers must know which
components are to be used and placed to achieve the desired layout and
performance.
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optimize the FET selection for the specified operating voltage and current.
Thus, the efficiency of a discrete solution can be better than Power
Management IC in some cases.
Circuit Reliability
The circuit failures can be due to
Both discrete and power management IC are subject to all three categories
above, but it is often the case where the power management IC vendors
have carefully designed a solution which meets all Intel® Atom™ Processor
E6xx and Intel® Platform Controller Hub EG20T design specification. They
have validated the circuitry on the real platform and the learning has been
documented in their datasheets, design guidelines and customer reference
design guides.
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Power Management
Dialog Semiconductor’s new DA6011 uses a single supply voltage and
provides low noise supplies to all CPU and I/O-Hub voltage domains with
current management for the system DDR2 and boot SPI flash memory.
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low quiescent current, and includes 3 pass devices for platform power
distribution simplification.
Six DC-DC buck converters (three with external FETs and three with
integrated FETs) provide current to the Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx series
platform’s multiple low voltage domains.
These buck converters supply the CPU and graphics cores and meet Intel®
IMVP-6 specification. Furthermore, they power the system memories, the
I/O-hub and further high current loads of the platform.
Clock Supplies
To manage the clock supplies four fractional division featured PLLs, two
including spread spectrum capability are included in DA6011. The PLLs
provide the clocks to the Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx series as well as to
the selected I/O hubs, further shrinking the component count. The reference
clock for the PLLs is generated via a 14.31818MHz crystal oscillator.
Auxiliary function
An analogue to digital converter (ADC) with 10-bits resolution combined with
an input multiplexer and track & hold circuitry has been implemented. Two
inputs can be used to measure signals manually or automatically.
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Operating conditions
Designed in accordance with AEC-Q100 specifications based requirements,
the DA6011 operates between -40°C and +85°C to meet industrial and
automotive temperature ranges. The die temperature and the output currents
of each source will be monitored to ensure proper and safe operation.
Summary
Features:
• Power supplies & power management for Intel® Atom™ processor E6xx
series plus I/O-hubs.
• Supports Intel® Platform Control Hub EG20T, ST Microelectronics*
STA2X11, OKI* Semiconductor ML7223 and ML7213 I/O-Hubs.
• Programmable clock supplies dedicated to Intel® Atom™ processor E6xx
series platforms with I/O-Hubs.
• Flexible, hardcoded SMC programmable via OTP.
• Automotive temperature range, meeting AEC-Q100 specifications.
Functions:
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Applications:
Packages:
Key Differentiator:
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noise/heat interference between PMIC and CGIC. Thus PMIC and CGIC can
keep its integrity.
Not only its integrity, but also ease of design will be provided to the
customers by using QFN packages. QFN packages is not required leading
edge technology of board design such as stacked VIA or fine pattern
dimension to route multiple of lines between the balls.
On top of that, output FETs are integrated into PMIC in order to reduce the
external components count.
Power Management IC
The BD9591MWV/BD9594MWV is a single chip power management IC for the
Intel® Atom™ processor E6xx series. The chip solution provides all power as
well as system management control. It is designed to support platforms
based on the Intel® Atom™ processor E6xx series, including the I/O-hubs.
Clock Generator IC
The BU7335MWV is a single chip clock IC for the Intel® Atom™ processor
E6xx series. The chip solution provides all the clocks. It is designed to
support platforms based on the Intel® Atom™ processor E6xx series,
including the I/O-hubs.
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• USB_VDD_1.2V for PLL VDD and analog VDD (USB host and device) (1.2V
/ 0.14A)
• PCIE/SATA_1.2V for PLL VDD and analog VDD (PCIE and SATA) (1.2V /
0.4A)
Summary
Operating Condition:
Features:
Applications:
Packages:
• UQFN088V0100
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BU7335MWV Device
Features
• Clock generator LSI for Intel® Atom™ Processor E600 Series, Intel® PCH
EG20T and OKI semiconductor ML7213 and ML7223 I/O-Hubs.
• 5 integrated PLLs enable the generation of ALL required clocks (Intel
CK505-compliant)
• Spread Spectrum function built-in for reduce EMI.
• Ideal for use with ROHM BD9591MWV/BD9594MWV PMIC.
Summary
Operating Condition:
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Applications:
Packages:
• UQFN64AV8080
Conclusion
A highly integrated power management IC for Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx
platform is presented in this paper. The Power Management Blocks, System
Power Management Controller Block and Clock Synthesis Block are the key
features of Power Management IC. Choosing between discrete solutions
versus Power Management IC is often dependent on the design specifications.
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Authors
Yew Chien Chern is a Platform Application Engineer with
Embedded & Communications Group at Intel Corporation.
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Acronyms
BOM Bill of Material
CLK Clock
CPU Central Processing Unit
IMVP Intel® Mobile Voltage Positioning
PCH Intel® Platform Controller Hub EG20T
LDO
Regulator Low Dropout Regulator
PMIC Power Management IC
PND Portable Navigation Device
SOC System-on-Chip
UMPC Ultra-mobile Personal Computer
VR Voltage Regulator
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